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UNC-G vs. Elon College
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Cafeteria Renovations To Come
ARA Touting Improvements
By LEIGH TRAPP
AMI N>WI Editor
For those students who dine at
the university's cafeterias, it is
becoming increasingly apparent
that strides are being taken to add
more variety and selection to the
dining halls' menus.
Students who are coffee lovers
have found a new treat when they
go to get their morning or after-dinner
beverage. Freshly brewed
Columbian and Sanka brands have
replaced the conventional coffee of-fered.
The Columbian coffee is
brewed from ground beans which
are available in each cafeteria.
For vegetarians and salad lovers,
there are four varieties of sprouts
which have been added to the salad
bar selections. These different
sprouts will be offered in a "revolv-ing
cycle" in the North, State, and
Spartan dining areas.
In the near future, there will also
be a new option for those who en-joy
hamburgers and fries. Accor-ding
to "Today on Campus," ARA's
Annette Waisner said "in about two
weeks chuck burgers ground each
day from beef chuck will be offered
in the fast food lines."
Other future plans include a deli-style
buffet which will be offered in
each of the cafeterias during the
week. In addition, special areas will
be designated "no smoking areas"
in each of the dining halls.
Within the next year, extensive
changes and additions will be made
at the cafeterias, both internally
and externally. In a recent inter-view,
Residence Life Director Bob
Tomlinson addressed the question
of future renovations and alter-natives
to be included with the meal
plans and dining areas.
Externally, Tomlinson said the
university hopes to improve the
overall conditions of the cafeterias.
"We hope to improve the overall
aesthetics of the dining halls. Right
now we have the large dining halls
where noise carries and there are
fixed seats. We would like to create
an atmosphere more conducive to
pleasant dining."
Tomlinson cited renovations at
N.C. State as an example of how the
university would like to see UNC-G
cafeterias designed as more of a
restaurant than a 'mesa hall.'
"We have seen pictures of the NC
State renovations," he said. "They
have done a remarkable job with
carpeting and different leveling. It
resembles a nice 'restaurant' and
that is what we hope to accomplish
with our renovations."
Other external improvements in-clude
the possibility of creating
small shops and stands in the en-tryways
to the dining halls. A $1.8
million plan has been made to create
shops such as a bakery, an ice-cream
stand, a news stand which
would be run on a daily basis. There
are also hopes to open up the tun-nel
through North Spencer Dor-mitory
so that students near the
Petty Science Building can go
straight into the dining hall rather
than walking around North/South
Spencer.
These external changes will go
hand in hand with the internal din-ing
hall changes, Tomlinson said.
Internal improvement plans include
expansion of the meal-plan so that
an 'A la carte' plan could be offered.
This plan is being used at several
campuses across the nation. Accor-ding
to Tomlinson, students would
be charged for individual items in-stead
of paying a straight meal fee.
"Students would pay an amount for
their meal card and then money
would be deducted for each item
they purchase," he said. This would
give students more of a choice, i.e.,
personal orders could be made,
things could be cooked to order,
special desserts and steaks could be
offered . . . and all of these thingB
could be available with a descending
balance meal plan.
Naturally, students will have
choice of which meal plan they
desire—whether it be 'A la carte' or
non-transferable. However, Tomlin-son
said, the new plans will be in-terchangeable,
thus adding more
benefits to the meal plan system.
Most of the renovations will be
completed by the fall of 1985.
Because the renovations will have
to be made while school is in pro-gress,
Tomlinson said they will
work to maintain dining room ser-vice
while making the changes.
"We are very encouraged," he
said. Actually everyone—faculty,
and students—should be impressed.
Nearly $2 million will be spent on
improvements within the halls dur-ing
the next school year.
Stedman Speaks At Building Open House
A public open house for the new
Arts and Sciences Building and the
newly renovated Curry Building
was held on Sunday, Jan. 29, at
UNC-G.
Guest speaker for the open house
was Dr. Donald J. Stedman, an
associate vice-president for
academic affairs with General Ad-ministration
of the University of
North Carolina system. His address
was entitled 'Teaching Is Not A
Performing Art."
UNC-G Chancellor William E.
Moran welcomed guests and
visitors and presided during the
program. James H. Allen, vice
chancellor for student affairs, gave
the invocation. Charles A. Hayes,
chairman of the UNC-G Board of
Trustees, also spoke briefly. Special
music was performed by the
University Student Brass Quintet,
under the direction of Dr. Frederick
Beck, a UNC-G assistant professor
of music.
Dr. Stedman was introduced by
Dr. Elisabeth Zinser, vice
chancellor for academic affairs at
UNC-G. He holds the Ph.D. degree
in psychology from George Peabody
College for Teachers. Stedman
came to UNC-Chapel Hill in 1971 as
a professor of education and
associate director of the Frank
Porter Graham Child Development
Center there.
In 1976, UNC President William
Friday appointed Dr. Stedman as
special assistant to the vice presi-dent
for academic affairs to direct
a special evaluation of teacher
education programs throughout the
UNC system. He was appointed to
his current position in 1978 and is
the author of more that 70 articles
and research publications.
Following Stedman's address,
Dean Robert L. Miller of UNC-G
College of Arts and Sciences and
Dean David H. Reilly of the UNC-G
School of Education spoke brief-ly
and provided information on
points of interest which visitors
could investigate.
Work on both buildings was com-pleted
last summer and the projects
were funded through a $6.49 million
appropriation from the N.C.
General Assembly. Both structures
were in use during first semester at
UNC-G. The Curry Building, built
in 1926, houses the UNC-G School
of Education and also provides
rehearsal areas and some office
space for the UNC-G theatre
division.
The first and third floors of the
Arts and Sciences Building are oc-cupied
respectively, by the Depart-ment
of Communication and
Theatre's division of communica-tion
studies and division of com-munication
disorders. The School of
Education's newly developed
Center for Educational Studies and
Development is located on the
Building's second floor.
Amon$ the new facilities in the
communication disorders division
are a $62,600 brainstem audiometer
(which is a sophisticated computer
that listens to sounds from the brain
and analyzes them for hearing
research), a sonograph (which
analyzes speech sounds into fre-quency
and intensity), and two new
sound suites which are used
by the audiology laboratory and the
University Speech and Hearing
Center.
In the communication disorders
division, there is a 24-carrel, com-puterized
audio-tape laboratory
used in voice and diction courses, a
specialized voice and articulation
classroom used to study the physical
act of speaking and a closed circuit
television system for public speak-ing
and diction.
The UNC-G School of Education
held activities in the Curry Building
and on the second floor of the Arts
and Sciences Building, where the
Center for Educational Studies and
Development is located. Visitors
saw a slideshow presentation on the
school's programs and services
along with displays of faculty
research and published work.
The Center for Educational
Studies and Development offers
educational and diagnostic services
to the community. It has three
demonstration classrooms, along
with other rooms for testing, con-sultation,
research, seminars and
conferences.
Chorale Receives Funding
UNC-G Psychologists Author Book
By LEIGH TRAPP
Surf WrIUr
Appropriations for the Universi-ty
Chorale, the English Club,
Outing Club, and the Sociology
Department headed the list of
Senate activities at their January
31 meeting. The University
Chorale received $2000 to help pay
the cost of their February tour from
Greensboro, North Carolina to
Atlanta, Georgia.
Senate also commended the
organisation for their fund-raising
event which contributed $1,150.00
toward their trip.
The chorale is scheduled to tour
from February 21 to February
26. According to the Appropria-tiona
Committee report, "This tour
will include performances along
route to Atlanta... and while in
Georgia the group has been invited
to perform for the American Choral
Director's Association."
The English Club received a
spring budget of $1,000. This
budget will be active until October
of 1984. Various items, including
publishing and professional fees will
be afforded in this budget.
A substantial amount of money
has been transferred into the
"travel account" of the Outing
Club.
Senate approved four line-item
transfers from Contractual Services,
Insurances and Licenses, Equip-ment
Maintenance and Repairs, and
telephones to be spent on travel
expenses.
These transfers are being made to
meet the increasing demands made
on funds as a result of increased
participation in club trips.
In other business. Elections
Board Chairperson Buck Buchanan
announced that nominations for ex-ecutive
offices of Student Govern-ment
will be taken this week.
Nominations can be made at the
main desk of EUC on February
14.
see APPROPRIATIONS page 7
Dr. Rosemary 0. Nelson and Dr.
Steven C. Hayes, two psychology
faculty members at UNC-G are the
coauthors of a new book, The Scien-tist
Practitioner: Research and Ac-countability
in Clinical and Educa-tional
Settings.
Published by Pergamon Press of
New York City, the 360-page book
explores ways that clinical
psychologists and professionals in
clinical disciplines can employ scien-tific
methods of data collection in
Inside Today's
Issue
Opinions P«f« *
Art. P*t* >
Features P«I« «
Sport. Pnp 5
Etcetera. P»g« '
For Colored Girls Page 3
A Puwiy Story Page 4
Sport. File Page 6
their practices. The book was writ-ten
with Dr. David H. Barlow of the
State University of New York at
Albany.
"We're trying in the book to sug-gest
some ways which can bring
people back to a purer version of the
scientist-practitioner model in
terms of collecting valid informa-tion,"
said Dr. Nelson, who is direc-tor
of clinical training in UNC-G's
Department of Psychology.
"The idea is that clinical scien-tists,
and not just psychologists,
shoulc be able to not just treat peo-ple
but to gather empirical data on
treatment outcomes. We're ad-vocating
aome ways in which
research and clinical practice can be
incorporated."
Dr. Hayes, an associate professor
of psychology, said the three
authors advocate that professionals
should view their clinical practices
as sources of scientific information.
The book, he said, provides
methods, techniques and research
strategies which can be easily incor-porated
into the daily work of prac-titioners
in several of the helping
fields.
"The methodology that many peo-ple
learn in their college careers, at
both the undergraduate and
graduate levels, is often inap-propriate
for conducting studies in
clinical practice," said Hayes. "A
clinical psychologist, for example,
can't put together a group study of
several individuals when he or she
might be treating several people
with entirely different kinds of prob-lems
in a clinical setting."
Dr. Nelson has been a faculty
member at UNC-G since 1971. A
graduate of St. Louis University,
she holds the Ph.D. degree from the
State University of New York at
Stoney Brook. She is a past presi-dent
of the Association for the Ad-vancement
of Behavior Therapy
and is currently serving as presi-dent
of the American Psychological
Association's division of the ex-perimental
analysis of behavior.
A UNC-G faculty member since
1976, Dr. Hayes is a graduate of
Loyola University. He received his
M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Weat
Virginia University. The author of
two books and more than 100
research articles, he is a past
associate editor of the Journal of
Applied Behavior Analyeie.
Student Financial Aid Plummets
Financial aid for college students
has plummeted 21 percent— over
$2 billion— since the Reagan ad-ministration
took office in 1980, ac-cording
to a just-released study by
the College Board.
"And that S2 billion decline is
even greater when inflation is taken
into account," notes College Board
spokeswoman Janice Gams. "Aid
had been cut by one-fifth in
inflation-adjusted terms."
Much of the decline indue to cuts
the Reagan administration and Con-gress
have made in Social Security
benefits for college students,
stricter limits on Guaranteed Stu-dent
Loan (GSL) eligibility, and a
post-Vietnam War drop in the use
of veterans' benefits.
In addition, the study reports "a
switch in the trend from grants to
loans which has been remarkable,"
Gams says.
In 1970-71, for instance, grants
accounted for nearly two-thirds of
all financial aid, while loans and
work-study benefits accounted for
the other third.
By 1976-76, grants constituted
over 80 percent of all financial aid
expenditures, loans 17 percent, and
College Work-Study three percent.
For the current year, however,
loans and grant* each account for
48 percent of student aid, and Col-lege
Work-Study the remaining
four percent.
At a time when college financial
aid experts are growing increasing-ly
concerned about the level of long-term
debt college students are in-see
FINANCIAL AID page 7
Need Tax Assistance?
The UNC-G Accounting Club &
Association, in cooperation with the
Internal Revenue Service, will spon-sor
Volunteer Income Tax
Assistance (VITA) to provide free
tax help for UNC-G students on
February 6 and 7, from 1:00 to 5:00
p.m. in Mclver Lounge, EUC.
Volunteers, consisting of students
and faculty from the accounting
department of the School of
Business and Economics trained by
the IRS for the VITA program, will
assist students in preparation of
simple tax returns.
VITA will provide forms 1040,
1040A. and 1040EZ for use in
preparing student returns.
Students should bring their W-2
forms with them when they come in
for assistance, otherwise they can-not
be helped. Any additional
records that students wish to bring
in will be helpful. However, the
volunteers are not required to check
for evidence of students' claims.
The February VITA sessions are
again primarily for the benefit of
UNC-G students. Additional ses-sions
will be held for the general
public during the month of March at
Carolina Circle Mall.

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Dirty
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Support Lady Spartans!
UNC-G vs. Elon College
7:30 p.m.. Coleman Gymnasium
Hague Philharmonic Orchestra
To Perform Tonight
In Aycock Auditorium. 8:15 p.m.
Help The Health Forum
Find A Logo - Win $50
see page 4
The Carolinian Non-profit
VS. PotOf
PAID
Grmtboro. N.C.
Permit No $0
Taur.day. February 2. 1984 Volume LXIII Number 30 Tbe Uaiverelty of North Carolina al Graeasboro Have a story idea? Call aa al 37S-5752
Cafeteria Renovations To Come
ARA Touting Improvements
By LEIGH TRAPP
AMI N>WI Editor
For those students who dine at
the university's cafeterias, it is
becoming increasingly apparent
that strides are being taken to add
more variety and selection to the
dining halls' menus.
Students who are coffee lovers
have found a new treat when they
go to get their morning or after-dinner
beverage. Freshly brewed
Columbian and Sanka brands have
replaced the conventional coffee of-fered.
The Columbian coffee is
brewed from ground beans which
are available in each cafeteria.
For vegetarians and salad lovers,
there are four varieties of sprouts
which have been added to the salad
bar selections. These different
sprouts will be offered in a "revolv-ing
cycle" in the North, State, and
Spartan dining areas.
In the near future, there will also
be a new option for those who en-joy
hamburgers and fries. Accor-ding
to "Today on Campus," ARA's
Annette Waisner said "in about two
weeks chuck burgers ground each
day from beef chuck will be offered
in the fast food lines."
Other future plans include a deli-style
buffet which will be offered in
each of the cafeterias during the
week. In addition, special areas will
be designated "no smoking areas"
in each of the dining halls.
Within the next year, extensive
changes and additions will be made
at the cafeterias, both internally
and externally. In a recent inter-view,
Residence Life Director Bob
Tomlinson addressed the question
of future renovations and alter-natives
to be included with the meal
plans and dining areas.
Externally, Tomlinson said the
university hopes to improve the
overall conditions of the cafeterias.
"We hope to improve the overall
aesthetics of the dining halls. Right
now we have the large dining halls
where noise carries and there are
fixed seats. We would like to create
an atmosphere more conducive to
pleasant dining."
Tomlinson cited renovations at
N.C. State as an example of how the
university would like to see UNC-G
cafeterias designed as more of a
restaurant than a 'mesa hall.'
"We have seen pictures of the NC
State renovations," he said. "They
have done a remarkable job with
carpeting and different leveling. It
resembles a nice 'restaurant' and
that is what we hope to accomplish
with our renovations."
Other external improvements in-clude
the possibility of creating
small shops and stands in the en-tryways
to the dining halls. A $1.8
million plan has been made to create
shops such as a bakery, an ice-cream
stand, a news stand which
would be run on a daily basis. There
are also hopes to open up the tun-nel
through North Spencer Dor-mitory
so that students near the
Petty Science Building can go
straight into the dining hall rather
than walking around North/South
Spencer.
These external changes will go
hand in hand with the internal din-ing
hall changes, Tomlinson said.
Internal improvement plans include
expansion of the meal-plan so that
an 'A la carte' plan could be offered.
This plan is being used at several
campuses across the nation. Accor-ding
to Tomlinson, students would
be charged for individual items in-stead
of paying a straight meal fee.
"Students would pay an amount for
their meal card and then money
would be deducted for each item
they purchase," he said. This would
give students more of a choice, i.e.,
personal orders could be made,
things could be cooked to order,
special desserts and steaks could be
offered . . . and all of these thingB
could be available with a descending
balance meal plan.
Naturally, students will have
choice of which meal plan they
desire—whether it be 'A la carte' or
non-transferable. However, Tomlin-son
said, the new plans will be in-terchangeable,
thus adding more
benefits to the meal plan system.
Most of the renovations will be
completed by the fall of 1985.
Because the renovations will have
to be made while school is in pro-gress,
Tomlinson said they will
work to maintain dining room ser-vice
while making the changes.
"We are very encouraged," he
said. Actually everyone—faculty,
and students—should be impressed.
Nearly $2 million will be spent on
improvements within the halls dur-ing
the next school year.
Stedman Speaks At Building Open House
A public open house for the new
Arts and Sciences Building and the
newly renovated Curry Building
was held on Sunday, Jan. 29, at
UNC-G.
Guest speaker for the open house
was Dr. Donald J. Stedman, an
associate vice-president for
academic affairs with General Ad-ministration
of the University of
North Carolina system. His address
was entitled 'Teaching Is Not A
Performing Art."
UNC-G Chancellor William E.
Moran welcomed guests and
visitors and presided during the
program. James H. Allen, vice
chancellor for student affairs, gave
the invocation. Charles A. Hayes,
chairman of the UNC-G Board of
Trustees, also spoke briefly. Special
music was performed by the
University Student Brass Quintet,
under the direction of Dr. Frederick
Beck, a UNC-G assistant professor
of music.
Dr. Stedman was introduced by
Dr. Elisabeth Zinser, vice
chancellor for academic affairs at
UNC-G. He holds the Ph.D. degree
in psychology from George Peabody
College for Teachers. Stedman
came to UNC-Chapel Hill in 1971 as
a professor of education and
associate director of the Frank
Porter Graham Child Development
Center there.
In 1976, UNC President William
Friday appointed Dr. Stedman as
special assistant to the vice presi-dent
for academic affairs to direct
a special evaluation of teacher
education programs throughout the
UNC system. He was appointed to
his current position in 1978 and is
the author of more that 70 articles
and research publications.
Following Stedman's address,
Dean Robert L. Miller of UNC-G
College of Arts and Sciences and
Dean David H. Reilly of the UNC-G
School of Education spoke brief-ly
and provided information on
points of interest which visitors
could investigate.
Work on both buildings was com-pleted
last summer and the projects
were funded through a $6.49 million
appropriation from the N.C.
General Assembly. Both structures
were in use during first semester at
UNC-G. The Curry Building, built
in 1926, houses the UNC-G School
of Education and also provides
rehearsal areas and some office
space for the UNC-G theatre
division.
The first and third floors of the
Arts and Sciences Building are oc-cupied
respectively, by the Depart-ment
of Communication and
Theatre's division of communica-tion
studies and division of com-munication
disorders. The School of
Education's newly developed
Center for Educational Studies and
Development is located on the
Building's second floor.
Amon$ the new facilities in the
communication disorders division
are a $62,600 brainstem audiometer
(which is a sophisticated computer
that listens to sounds from the brain
and analyzes them for hearing
research), a sonograph (which
analyzes speech sounds into fre-quency
and intensity), and two new
sound suites which are used
by the audiology laboratory and the
University Speech and Hearing
Center.
In the communication disorders
division, there is a 24-carrel, com-puterized
audio-tape laboratory
used in voice and diction courses, a
specialized voice and articulation
classroom used to study the physical
act of speaking and a closed circuit
television system for public speak-ing
and diction.
The UNC-G School of Education
held activities in the Curry Building
and on the second floor of the Arts
and Sciences Building, where the
Center for Educational Studies and
Development is located. Visitors
saw a slideshow presentation on the
school's programs and services
along with displays of faculty
research and published work.
The Center for Educational
Studies and Development offers
educational and diagnostic services
to the community. It has three
demonstration classrooms, along
with other rooms for testing, con-sultation,
research, seminars and
conferences.
Chorale Receives Funding
UNC-G Psychologists Author Book
By LEIGH TRAPP
Surf WrIUr
Appropriations for the Universi-ty
Chorale, the English Club,
Outing Club, and the Sociology
Department headed the list of
Senate activities at their January
31 meeting. The University
Chorale received $2000 to help pay
the cost of their February tour from
Greensboro, North Carolina to
Atlanta, Georgia.
Senate also commended the
organisation for their fund-raising
event which contributed $1,150.00
toward their trip.
The chorale is scheduled to tour
from February 21 to February
26. According to the Appropria-tiona
Committee report, "This tour
will include performances along
route to Atlanta... and while in
Georgia the group has been invited
to perform for the American Choral
Director's Association."
The English Club received a
spring budget of $1,000. This
budget will be active until October
of 1984. Various items, including
publishing and professional fees will
be afforded in this budget.
A substantial amount of money
has been transferred into the
"travel account" of the Outing
Club.
Senate approved four line-item
transfers from Contractual Services,
Insurances and Licenses, Equip-ment
Maintenance and Repairs, and
telephones to be spent on travel
expenses.
These transfers are being made to
meet the increasing demands made
on funds as a result of increased
participation in club trips.
In other business. Elections
Board Chairperson Buck Buchanan
announced that nominations for ex-ecutive
offices of Student Govern-ment
will be taken this week.
Nominations can be made at the
main desk of EUC on February
14.
see APPROPRIATIONS page 7
Dr. Rosemary 0. Nelson and Dr.
Steven C. Hayes, two psychology
faculty members at UNC-G are the
coauthors of a new book, The Scien-tist
Practitioner: Research and Ac-countability
in Clinical and Educa-tional
Settings.
Published by Pergamon Press of
New York City, the 360-page book
explores ways that clinical
psychologists and professionals in
clinical disciplines can employ scien-tific
methods of data collection in
Inside Today's
Issue
Opinions P«f« *
Art. P*t* >
Features P«I« «
Sport. Pnp 5
Etcetera. P»g« '
For Colored Girls Page 3
A Puwiy Story Page 4
Sport. File Page 6
their practices. The book was writ-ten
with Dr. David H. Barlow of the
State University of New York at
Albany.
"We're trying in the book to sug-gest
some ways which can bring
people back to a purer version of the
scientist-practitioner model in
terms of collecting valid informa-tion,"
said Dr. Nelson, who is direc-tor
of clinical training in UNC-G's
Department of Psychology.
"The idea is that clinical scien-tists,
and not just psychologists,
shoulc be able to not just treat peo-ple
but to gather empirical data on
treatment outcomes. We're ad-vocating
aome ways in which
research and clinical practice can be
incorporated."
Dr. Hayes, an associate professor
of psychology, said the three
authors advocate that professionals
should view their clinical practices
as sources of scientific information.
The book, he said, provides
methods, techniques and research
strategies which can be easily incor-porated
into the daily work of prac-titioners
in several of the helping
fields.
"The methodology that many peo-ple
learn in their college careers, at
both the undergraduate and
graduate levels, is often inap-propriate
for conducting studies in
clinical practice," said Hayes. "A
clinical psychologist, for example,
can't put together a group study of
several individuals when he or she
might be treating several people
with entirely different kinds of prob-lems
in a clinical setting."
Dr. Nelson has been a faculty
member at UNC-G since 1971. A
graduate of St. Louis University,
she holds the Ph.D. degree from the
State University of New York at
Stoney Brook. She is a past presi-dent
of the Association for the Ad-vancement
of Behavior Therapy
and is currently serving as presi-dent
of the American Psychological
Association's division of the ex-perimental
analysis of behavior.
A UNC-G faculty member since
1976, Dr. Hayes is a graduate of
Loyola University. He received his
M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Weat
Virginia University. The author of
two books and more than 100
research articles, he is a past
associate editor of the Journal of
Applied Behavior Analyeie.
Student Financial Aid Plummets
Financial aid for college students
has plummeted 21 percent— over
$2 billion— since the Reagan ad-ministration
took office in 1980, ac-cording
to a just-released study by
the College Board.
"And that S2 billion decline is
even greater when inflation is taken
into account," notes College Board
spokeswoman Janice Gams. "Aid
had been cut by one-fifth in
inflation-adjusted terms."
Much of the decline indue to cuts
the Reagan administration and Con-gress
have made in Social Security
benefits for college students,
stricter limits on Guaranteed Stu-dent
Loan (GSL) eligibility, and a
post-Vietnam War drop in the use
of veterans' benefits.
In addition, the study reports "a
switch in the trend from grants to
loans which has been remarkable,"
Gams says.
In 1970-71, for instance, grants
accounted for nearly two-thirds of
all financial aid, while loans and
work-study benefits accounted for
the other third.
By 1976-76, grants constituted
over 80 percent of all financial aid
expenditures, loans 17 percent, and
College Work-Study three percent.
For the current year, however,
loans and grant* each account for
48 percent of student aid, and Col-lege
Work-Study the remaining
four percent.
At a time when college financial
aid experts are growing increasing-ly
concerned about the level of long-term
debt college students are in-see
FINANCIAL AID page 7
Need Tax Assistance?
The UNC-G Accounting Club &
Association, in cooperation with the
Internal Revenue Service, will spon-sor
Volunteer Income Tax
Assistance (VITA) to provide free
tax help for UNC-G students on
February 6 and 7, from 1:00 to 5:00
p.m. in Mclver Lounge, EUC.
Volunteers, consisting of students
and faculty from the accounting
department of the School of
Business and Economics trained by
the IRS for the VITA program, will
assist students in preparation of
simple tax returns.
VITA will provide forms 1040,
1040A. and 1040EZ for use in
preparing student returns.
Students should bring their W-2
forms with them when they come in
for assistance, otherwise they can-not
be helped. Any additional
records that students wish to bring
in will be helpful. However, the
volunteers are not required to check
for evidence of students' claims.
The February VITA sessions are
again primarily for the benefit of
UNC-G students. Additional ses-sions
will be held for the general
public during the month of March at
Carolina Circle Mall.